Fish lure



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Application January 19, 1945, Serial No. 573,590

4 Claims.

This invention relates to fish lures and is embodied in a bodysimulating the movements of a fish swimming through the water. Thismotion is made possible by the shape of the rear half which because ofthe rounded top surface sways to and fro and causes the body to roll onits side as it swings.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my lure in the position it occupies inthe water;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the same;

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view;

Figure 4 is an end view viewed from the left hand end of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a tail end View viewed from the right hand end of Figure 1;

Figures 6 and 7 are cross sectional views on lines 6-6 and respectively,of Figure 1;

Figure 8 is a side elevation of a modified form of my lure;

Figure 9 is a top plan view of the modification;

Figure 10 is a bottom plan view of this modification;

Figures 11 and 12 are cross sectional views on lines llll and 12-42,respectively, of Figure The preferred form of my lure for castingillustrated in Figures 1-7 comprises a body of wood or other suitablematerial. The choice of wood is suggested by its low specific gravity byvirtue of which it floats on the water; wood can be weighted exteriorlyto assume any desired position in the water. The bottom surface B of thelure is substantially cylindrical, except at the front end P which isparabolic. The thickness of the body measured along the radius of thecylinder is a maximum at the left or front end and decreases rearwardlyso that the top and bottom surfaces intersect at T. The width of thebottom surface is a minimum at the front end and increases towards thetail end. The sides S converge upwardly so as to form a blunt top edge Eat the front, but their upward convergence decreases towards the tailend so, that as shown in Figure 3, they are almost parallel to oneanother at a point lying about A of the entire length from the tail end.Beyond this point the sides merge with the rounded side edges of theupper surface, as seen in Figures 2 and '7, upwardly. The lure isstreamlined because of the rounding off of the corners.

A screw 2 having a line attaching eye at the top is screwed into therounded upwardly and forwardly tapered front end. From the point wherethe bottom surface becomes cylindrical a weighted plate W is attachedthereto and covers about a fourth of that surface. At a point somewhatto the right of the lowest point of the bottom surface an eyebolt 3 isscrewed into the body and may be used for the suspension of a weight toregulate the extent to which the tail end is above the level of thefront end.

The modification of Figures 8-12 shows a lure for trolling having abottom surface which is a fragment of a cylinder and into which merges aparabolic surface P forming the front end and having its shortest radiusat the point of mergence into the cylindrical surface. The width of thecylindrical surface is a maximum at the rear end and decreases towardthe front end. The width of the parabolic surface diminishes upwardlyand tapers off at the top so as to form a blunt top edge e which is thenrounded off. The two sides 1 converge upwardly and forwardly but mergeinto a curved elliptic top surface S bounding the rear half with thecurvature of that surface diminishing towards the rear end.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A fish lure of floating material bounded at the bottom by an arcuatesurface the width of which increases toward the rear end, at the frontend by a surface having a parabolic curve and being of upwardlydiminishing width, at the top by a concave surface intersecting at thetail with the arcuate surface, and at the sides by upwardly convergingflat sides the upward convergence of which decreases rearwardly, andsaid flat sides merging with the concave top surface adjacent the tailportion.

2. A fish lure of floating material bounded at the bottom by an arcuatesurface of rearwardly increasing width and merging at the front end intoa surface having a parabolic curve and being of upwardly decreasingwidth, at the sides by fiat upwardly converging sides forming a bluntedge at the front top, the convergence of the sides decreasing towardsthe rear end, and at the top by the blunt edge recited and alongitudinally concave surface into which the edge merges, the lastnamed surface being transversely convex in the portion adjacent the rearend.

3. A fish lure comprising a body of bouyant material having an underside bowed outwardly in a direction longitudinally of the body andrelatively to its axis, the upper side of the body 4 being inwardlybowed in a longitudinal direction with respect to its axis, said bodyhaving 2. REFERENCES CITED rounded forward end merging with th upper Thefollowing references are of record in the and under sides, and said bodyhaving side walls file of this patent: diminishing in width and mergingwith the upper 5 UNI TENT and under sides adjacent the rear end of theTED STATES PA S lure, said rear end of the body being curved Number NameDate upwardly relatively to the forward end thereof. 2,033,829 HelinMar. 10, 1936 4. A fish lure as in claim 3, said sides being 2,133,032Martz Oct. 11, 1936 disposed in upwardly converging relationship. 102,184,031 Wyatt Dec. 19, 1939 MARTIN R. JOHNSON.

